"I never thought that one day I would visit a mud monster." Looking at the gray swamp in the distance, Sui Xiong only felt a little funny.
Yoniel is a mutated ooze monster who lives in a large gray swamp. As a famous legendary monster in the Ash Forest, it has a unique appearance and a maverick character, full of "different style of painting".
Sui Xiong flew a little closer and saw its figure. It was a huge puddle of mud, crawling in the middle of the swamp. It was completely black, so black that it had a metallic sheen that mud should never have. The swamp beneath its body gave off a strange smell, which was neither rancid nor vicious, nor poisonous. But it's like...hunger.
Sui Xiong has heard about Yoniel. This legendary monster is powerful and greedy, but its diet is quite strange - it does not eat any known living creatures, and has no interest in food, vegetables, fish or meat. The only food it is interested in is The thing is the skeleton.
What’s even more amazing is that there are endless skeletons buried underground in the Ashes Forest. So much so that every night, a large number of skeletons would appear, frantically attacking any living creature around them.
So during the day, Yoniel always sleeps lazily on the ground. When it gets dark and gets hungry, it will disperse into several mud monsters and attack in all directions, killing all the skeletons it can find and feasting.
Thanks to it, there is actually a safe zone without skeletons in the depths of the ash forest. There are many creatures living here, and some of them are wise enough to regard this huge mud monster as a patron saint, build an altar for it in the swamp where it usually rests, and purchase the bones of monsters as sacrifices.
The main source of these sacrifices is Longhou Town.
As Longhou Town, whose main source of income is hunting Warcraft, there is certainly no shortage of Warcraft bones. The intelligent creatures who believed in Yonir purchased various bones for sacrifice, and finally discovered that the mud monster patron saint's requirements for sacrifices were really strong and simple - the bigger the bones, the better, and the bigger they were, the more it liked them.
So they set their sights on those large monsters, so much so that the hunters in Longhou Town have developed a habit. If they hunt a large monster, even if it is a little harder and more troublesome, they have to take its bones back, or Just drag the whole thing back and forget it.
To be honest, since those creatures were so poor that they had to rely on Yoniel to survive, they naturally couldn't produce any decent wealth. But most of the hunters in Longhou Town are a group of warm and hospitable people, and they are willing to help others as long as they don't cause too much trouble to themselves.
Not only that, there are also some forces trying to help Yoniel. From time to time, they give the hunters some money and ask them to help those people.
Among them is Snowflake, whose pseudonym is "The Extremely Cold Tyrant".
So even if those followers of Jonir were so poor that they could only use wood and some not-so-rare ores as trading items, they could always exchange for a lot of things, enough to sustain their lives.
After gradually approaching Yonier, Sui Xiong slowly lowered his altitude to avoid arousing hostility from the opponent. But he was obviously overthinking it. The mud monster in the sun was lying in the almost completely frozen swamp, lazily basking in the sun, motionless, and completely turning a blind eye to his arrival.
However, there were several gray intelligent creatures on the ground who picked up weapons and took a defensive posture.
Sui Xiong carefully looked at these creatures that believed in Jonir. They looked quite similar to humans, but their bodies were covered with gray-black dust. This layer of dust has special magical power and can maintain body temperature very well, allowing them to live normally in this world of ice and snow.
Their lower limbs are a little short, and their upper limbs are very long, which looks very weird. Although the head also has structures similar to eyes and mouths, there are no eyeballs, only two surging masses of mud, which is really weird.
This situation is certainly not what normal creatures should have. In fact, they will only change into their current appearance when they are close to Yonier. When they are far away from Yoniel, they will change into another appearance - the most common one is a savage covered in thick fur.
Some powerful mages once captured these savages for study, but found that their bodies and bloodlines were essentially no different from humans. The reason why this strange phenomenon occurred was because they were too close to Yoniel and were affected.
Near this legendary beast, the "world" itself has been distorted into what it is accustomed to. The intelligent creatures living near it were also distorted by its power and underwent strange changes.
These intelligent creatures are not powerful enough to resist this distortion, so they cannot detect their own changes at all. In their view, no matter whether they are close to or far away from Jonir, they remain the same and have no change.
Even when they discovered that they had turned into long-haired savages while communicating with the residents of Longroar Town, they would not feel uneasy or worried, but would think it was natural and no big deal.
A magician once spent money to buy a few slaves and let them live with Joniel for a period of time. After they changed, he tried to undo the change. This experiment was quite successful, but the slaves didn't feel anything wrong when they looked at the recorded images of their strange appearance. According to them, everything was normal and nothing strange at all.
The magician finally failed to suppress the burning fire of curiosity and moved to live next to Yoniel. He used a lot of protective spells on himself, but they were of no use. After a few months, he also turned into a monster next to Jonir and a hairy savage elsewhere.
Fortunately, he still had friends, who pulled him back in time and cured him.
His sacrifice was worth it. After this research, the magicians finally determined that the area around Yoniel had undergone changes similar to the "Kingdom of Gods". This super huge mud monster actually had preliminary powers similar to those of a god. Power. It's just that its intelligence is too low to realize its essential transformation - or the speed of this transformation is very slow, so slow that it is almost impossible to observe, so this strange phenomenon occurs.
Of course, Sui Xiong was also a little curious about this, but first, he had to communicate with Yoniel's believers to make them believe that they were not enemies.
In fact, it's very simple.
The giant jellyfish waved its tentacles and took out an astonishingly large leg bone.
This bone did not come from any magical beast, but was made by Sui Xiong himself. Anyway, it is nothing more than piling up various minerals and nutrients, which is no different from building a house.
However, for those followers of Jonir, this is an out-and-out gift. They immediately put down their weapons, happily stroking this huge leg bone that was almost as tall as them lying on the ground, and admired it.
"My lord will like this gift very much!" said a creature that seemed to be the leader, "Guest from afar, Tranquility Swamp welcomes you!"
Tranquility Swamp is the name they gave this area.
It is indeed safe here, as long as you don't mind turning into a monster and having your whole body and mind twisted.
Of course, Sui Xiong would not be affected by Yoniel's power. He landed on the ground, shrunk in size, chatted with the residents of Tranquility Swamp who didn't realize what was wrong with him at all, and took out food to share with them.
The diet of these residents has not become as weird as Yoniel's. They still eat and drink like ordinary creatures. In order to avoid food and drinking water being contaminated by the ubiquitous negative energy, they dug storage rooms underground and used purchased magic materials to create warehouses that could shield negative energy for storage.
The cost of doing this is not low, so for them, clean food and drinking water are quite precious resources. Fortunately, in winter, the ice and snow on the canopy of the forest is very lightly polluted and can be used as a reliable source of water. But there is no choice but to buy food.
The batch of food Sui Xiong took out was that he made a special trip around and went to the sea to catch a considerable amount of food. For these people who live relatively poor lives, it can be regarded as a huge fortune.
They happily lit the bonfire, sang and danced. Although their movements were weird and even weird, their joy was unfailing. Sui Xiong was lying on a nearby tree stump. Seeing how happy they were, he couldn't help but smile.
As the day gradually passed, and when it was getting dark, Yoniel's followers used various tools to drag the ridiculously large leg bone to a simple altar in the swamp. Because the altar was not big enough, they could only put the bones on one side.
After doing this, they worshiped and prayed to Jonir, and then got into the underground cave.
The winter nights in the North are bone-chillingly cold, and even if you receive the gift of Yoniel and change your form, you can't resist it. Only by hiding in the relatively warm underground can we survive the long cold night.
When the moon rose, the giant mud monster that had been lying motionless throughout the day shook slightly, shattering an ice cube accumulated on its body during the day, and then slowly squirmed and changed its shape.
In the center of the upper part of its body, the mud-like material slowly flowed and gathered into something resembling a human shape. But the head looks like a huge octopus, and both arms have four tentacles, which looks quite weird.
This weird creature and Sui Xiong, who had transformed into a giant floating jellyfish, looked at each other for a while and then asked.
The will was vague, sticky and soft, like a mixture of glue and mud. Fortunately, I could finally understand its meaning.
Sui Xiong smiled, sent a friendly message, and reminded it to pay attention to the huge bones on the altar.
When Yoniel noticed the huge bone, it immediately roared with joy.
Just as it was trying hard to eat the bones, Sui Xiong took out another one and said he had more.
As a result, the most powerful mud monster in the world, the unconscious patron saint of Tranquility Swamp, was so easily bribed by a pile of big bones.
When Sui Xiong said goodbye and left, the guy learned his first vocabulary other than instinct.
friend.